AIA|LA Announces 2014 Design Award Winners

(Los Angeles, CA) - October 29, 2014 - AIA Los Angeles (AIA|LA) announced the 2014 Design Awards winners Wednesday evening, October 29, 2014. The program included executives in the Los Angeles Arts Community such as the Getty Center’s CEO James Cuno and the Hammer Museum’s Director, Ann Philbin.

This year marked AIA|LA’s grand return to Downtown Los Angeles, with the Design Awards being held at three historic Downtown Los Angeles venues: the Bradbury Building, the Million Dollar Theater and Grand Central Market. A pre-reception cocktail party kicked things off at Francis Krahe & Associates' 5th floor offices inside the Bradbury Building. Guests then proceeded to the Million Dollar Theater for drinks and the ceremony.

The ceremony went smoothly with 21 firms and 14 Presidential Honorees receiving awards.  Awards included the Next LA Awards (presented by Ann Philbin), the Design Awards (presented by James Cuno) and the Presidential Honor Awards (presented by AIA|LA Chapter President, Andrea Cohen Gehring, FAIA).

Presidential Honorees included, among others, A+D Museum Executive Director, Tibbie Dunbar, Hon. AIA|LA, Woodbury School of Architecture Dean, Norman Millar, AIA and Architecture Writer & Critic, Michael Webb, Hon. AIA|LA. The Building Team Award went to Emerson College L.A., and the Gold Medal went to Christopher C. Martin, FAIA and David C. Martin, FAIA of AC Martin Partners.

The night concluded with a hip and lavish party at Grand Central Market with food provided by such GCM staples as Belcampo Meat Co., Berlin Currywurst, China Cafe, Horse Thief BBQ and Olio GCM Wood Fired Pizza.

The annual AIA Los Angeles Design Awards honor excellence in work built by Los Angeles architects (Design Awards) as well as work by Los Angeles designers as yet unbuilt (Next LA Awards). In both the Design and Next LA categories, jury awards are given in three classifications: Citation, Merit and Honor.

For high quality images of winners and for more information about the event, please call, 213-639-0763 or email, nathalia@aialosangeles.org.

DESIGN AWARDS WINNERS

Click to view 2014 Design Awards (Built Projects) winners slideshow

Santa Monica Public Parking Structure # 6
Behnisch Architekten & Studio Jantzen
Santa Monica, CA
Category: Merit

Pico Place
Brooks+ Scarpa
Santa Monica, CA
Category: Citation

Hwaesong Sport Complex
DRDS
Hwaesong, Kyunggi, Korea
Category: Merit

Vault House
Johnston Marklee & Associates
Oxnard, CA
Category: Citation

Edison Language Academy
Kevin Daly Architects & IBI Group
Santa Monica, CA
Category: Merit

Buzz Court
Heyday
Los Angeles, CA
Category: Merit

A.P.C. Melrose Place
Laurent Deroo Architecte with WORD (Warren Office for Research and Design)
Los Angeles, CA
Category: Merit

Cloverdale 749
Lorcan O'Herlihy Architects (LOHA)
Los Angeles, CA
Category: Citation

Tongva Park + Ken Gensler Square
Miriam Mulder, AIA - City of Santa Monica, James Corner Field Operations and Frederick Fisher & Partners
Santa Monica, CA
Cateogry: Merit

Emerson College
Morphosis Architects
Los Angeles, CA
Cateogry: Honor

Cornell University
Morphosis Architects
Ithaca, New York
Category: Merit

La Cage Aux Folles
Warren Techentin Architecture
Los Angeles, CA
Category: Citation

NEXT LA WINNERS

Click to view 2014 Next LA (Unbuilt Projects) winners slideshow

Basketball Training Facility
AECOM
El Segundo, CA
Category: Merit

Hearth
After Architecture
Sackville, New Brunswick, Canada
Category: Honor

Innovative Bioclimatic European School Complex
Yianna Bouyioukou
Crete, Greece
Category: Merit

The Broad Museum
Diller Scofidio + Renfro and Gensler
Los Angeles, CA
Category: Honor

Lexington Center Reinvention and Expansion

NBBJ & EOP

Lexington, Kentucky
Category: Honor

Salford Meadows Bridge
Standard
Salford, Great Britain
Category: Citation

Heptagon House
Steven Christensen Architecture
Florence, Oregon
Category: Merit

Liepaja Thermal Bath
Steven Christensen Architecture
Liepaja, Latvia
Category: Citation

Pop-Up Chapel
Steven Christensen Architecture
Washington County, Oregon
Category: Citation

Daegu Gosan Public Library
Synthesis Design + Architecture
Daegu, Korea
Category: Merit

Kinmen Passenger Service Center
Tom Wiscombe Architecture, Inc.
Kinmen, Taiwan
Category: Honor

Luxelake Bridge
Yazdani Studio of Cannon Design
Chengdu, China
Category: Citation